Board: Lib Tech Off Ramp 2024

Worth: $579

Model: All-Mountain-Freestyle

Flex Ranking: Medium Stiff (7/10)

Flex Really feel on Snow: Medium (5.5/10)

Ranking Rating: 85.4/100

In comparison with different Males’s All-Mountain-Freestyle Boards

Out of the 33 males’s all-mountain-freestyle snowboards that I rated:

Overview of the Off Ramp’s Specs

Try the tables for the Off Ramp’s specs and obtainable sizes.

Specs

Who’s the Off Ramp Finest Suited To?

The Off Ramp is greatest suited to those that like air and need a board with good pop but in addition need to have the ability to experience comparatively quick and lay down first rate carves on the groomers at instances too. 

An amazing possibility for individuals who prefer to get air (and spin) but in addition get a good few icy days, because it has nice icy edge maintain. Did not get a lot of that to check in, however based mostly on the Off Ramp’s predecessor (Field Knife) and different related Lib Tech boards and the texture of the Off Ramp (significantly earlier within the day), it must be actually good in icy situations.  

Would work greatest as a quiver board alongside a extra directional/powder oriented board for powder days – or could possibly be a one-board-quiver when you do not see powder or its by no means that deep. 

Not for inexperienced persons, however simple going sufficient for intermediate riders, IMO.

Bindings angles: +15/-15

Stance width: 21.9″ (555mm)

Stance Setback: Centered

Width at Entrance Insert: 263mm (10.4″) 

Width at Again Insert: 263mm (10.4″) 

Rider Peak: 6’0″

Rider Weight: 180lbs 

Rider Boot Dimension: US9.5 Adidas Tactical ADV

Bindings Used: Burton Malavita M 

Management Board: Lib Tech Terrain Wrecker, 157

Weight: 6lbs 10oz (3000 grams)

Weight per cm: 19.48 grams/cm

Common Weight per cm: 18.43 grams/cm*

*based mostly on a pattern measurement of round 250 fashions that I’ve weighed in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024 fashions. Whereas the Off Ramp was a little bit heavier than common on the scales, however solely felt barely heavier than regular on snow. 

Powder

Good day to check in powder. Nothing like tremendous epic or something, however lots to mess around in. The Off Ramp, as anticipated, wasn’t nice. It felt fairly sinky at instances and required a powerful lean again onto the again leg. It was positive for what we had and since I used to be testing it for every little thing I wasn’t within the powder for an prolonged time period, however in deeper powder and all day in powder, it might get actually fatiguing and have you ever nostril diving all over, I believe. 

This factor is mainly conventional camber and with a real twin form and centered stance, there’s not a lot going for it in powder. 

Carving & Turning

Carving: Actually first rate on a carve. That predominantly camber profiles helps to chew the sting in and rip carves. It has it is limits as to how briskly a carve it may well deal with, however for reasonable velocity carves, it is actually enjoyable. 

Ease of Turning/Slashing: Fairly simple to provoke activates this board. Whereas it’s mainly full camber (technically C3, however I could not detect any rocker between the ft in any respect, both when driving or when inspecting it), it is obtained a reasonably simple going flex, significantly torsionally and the dimensions helped too. However you usually measurement down a bit for this tyle of board. 

Maneuverability at gradual speeds: Good and nimble. Not lightning agility at gradual speeds, however nonetheless actually first rate. 

Catchiness: Felt barely extra catchy than the Head House which I additionally rode that day – and than my management board, however general nothing tremendous catchy or something.  

Pace

Was quick sufficient for a twin and as much as sure speeds it had good stability. However there was a restrict to how briskly it might go earlier than beginning to really feel unstable. 

Uneven Terrain

Crud: Not invincible for crud, however first rate sufficient. 

Bumps: First rate sufficient when it comes to weaving between issues, however in powder not nice because it feels sinky. Significantly when you’re seeking to pop off or drop off issues into powder, it will likely be difficult protecting that nostril afloat. 

Jumps

That is the place this board excels essentially the most, IMO. It was tremendous enjoyable to leap and will deal with a variety of several types of jumps.

Pop: It had fairly simple to entry pop (among the pop in it was easy and the quantity that you possibly can get with little or no effort was fairly good) after which when actually loading it up, it gave again much more. Like heaps of it! I measured the camber within the Off Ramp at 11mm (which is absolutely pronounced!), so it was no shock how poppy this board was. 

It’s a heavier board, so you do not essentially get full worth for that pop, however it’s nonetheless actually poppy general. 

Strategy: Nice steadiness between being each decently secure and decently simple to hurry test and make changes. 

Touchdown: Stomper! May simply absolutely stomp landings.  That further weight helped right here. 

Facet-hits: Actually good. Decently simple to extract pop and first rate maneuverability combing to make this actually enjoyable for sidehits. And if you get the prospect to load it up, you’ll be able to actually ship it. 

Small jumps/Massive jumps: Actually good for all sorts of jumps. It is secure sufficient for greater jumps, however works effectively with tighter side-hits too. 

Change

Actually good, as you’d count on. Transitions weren’t fully catch-free, but in addition nothing tremendous catchy. And being a real twin felt very related driving in both path. 

Spins

Nice for organising and touchdown change. Nice pop. Not a lot size in tip/tail which helped too. The one draw back was that you simply did discover that further little bit of weight on spins. But it surely’s not tremendous heavy or something, so it wasn’t a biggie. 

Jibbing

Not too dangerous. Not supreme, however most competent jibbers could be positive with this on bins/rails. 

Butters

Slightly little bit of effort required to press the nostril and tail, however not that a lot actually. Locks into butters properly and feels actually constant in nostril and tail (unsurprisingly, given the nostril and tail are similar). 

Rating Breakdown and Last Verdict

Try the breakdown of the rating within the desk under.

The Off Ramp is a quick, poppy board that has a little bit of burliness to it. It isn’t tremendous stiff or something however it’s mainly full camber and it is simply on the aggressive facet of the dimensions. It isn’t extremely aggressive or something – not sufficient to shift it into the aggressive all-mountain freestyle class, however on the extra aggressive finish of this class.

It is at its greatest when getting air – has nice pop and stomps landings. However also can deal with a little bit of velocity and lay down some first rate carves too.